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Geography BSc Hons
The BSc (Hons) in Geography explores a fascinating range of important environmental and international phenomena including glaciers and ice ages; climate and weather; oceans; peatlands; environmental change and management; population change, migration and border politics; development and geopolitical conflict; socio-spatial inequalities (widening gaps in wealth, health and wellbeing). It provides an exciting challenge to those who wish to think critically and creatively about the world around them and understand the interaction of environmental systems and human activity.
Geography is studied up to Honours level in both the Faculty of Science (BSc) and the Faculty of Arts (MA). Students who have a background in the Sciences or who wish to study geography alongside Science subjects at St Andrews should apply for the BSc. For those interested in studying geography alongside Arts subjects, the MA in Geography may be of interest instead.
Admission requirements
These grades are the overall standards required to consider you for entry. Find out more about Standard, Minimum and Gateway entry requirements using academic entry explained and see which entry requirements you need to look at using the entry requirements indicator.
- SQA Highers
- GCE A-Levels
- IB points
International applicants
If English is not your first language you will need an overall IELTS score of 7.0, with a minimum score of 6.5 in each component (Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking), or an equivalent English language qualification.
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.
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First Year
Students will take two compulsory geography modules in their first year.
- Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment
- A World in Crisis?
Second Year
Students will take two compulsory geography modules in their second year.
- Geographies of Global Change
- (Re)constructing Environments, People and Places
Honours
If you decide to take geography in your third and fourth years, you can choose to specialise in certain aspects of the discipline that interest you.
Here is a sample of Honours modules which have been offered in previous years:
- Coastal Processes
- Colonial and Postcolonial Geography
- Development: voice, power and identity in global times
- Environmental Management in Scotland
- HIV/AIDs in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Ice and Climate
- Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border
- Scrutinising Segregation: Geographies of Diversity and Inequality
- Socio-Ecological Systems.
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Program delivery
When not attending lectures, tutorials and practical classes, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. Typically, this will involve:
- working on individual and group projects
- undertaking research in the library
- preparing coursework assignments and presentations
- preparing for examinations.
Tuition
Career paths
Reflecting the broad nature of geography, graduates leave St Andrews with a diverse and unique skill set, putting them in a very strong position in the jobs market.
Employers seek out geography graduates because of their rare combination of quantitative and qualitative skills, their ability to integrate and analyse diverse data, their understanding of human and environment interactions, their competence in GIS and spatial analysis, and their ability to think critically and creatively about the big social and environmental challenges facing us.
Career paths include:
- government
- education
- environment
- sustainability
- tourism and leisure
- planning and development
- business and finance
- security analysis
- science research.
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University of St Andrews
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Students at St Andrews have access to some of the world’s best professors and lecturers and a degree from the University of St Andrews is sought after by employers around the world.
In addition to award-winning teaching and research, the University of St Andrews has an array of facilities which result in high levels of student satisfaction and a world class reputation.
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